23 March 2008

Cave Beck's Universal Character, 1657

From Cave Beck's The Universal Character, by which all Nations of the World may Understand One Another's Conceptions, Reading out of one Common Writing their Own Mother Tongues, published in 1657. The frontispiece shows a seated Beck (or, at least, a European) handing his project over to an African, an Indian, and a Native American, who gestures his acceptance.

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I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill. This blog was maintained mostly during my time as a PhD student in English at Duke (2009-2015) and as a master's student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT (2007-2009).